In 1978, while I was a postdoctoral fellow at MIT, I read a paper by Art Ashkin (1978) in
which he described how one might slow down an atomic beam of sodium using the radiation …

We present a review of the work done with dissipative optical lattices so far. A dissipative
optical lattice is achieved when a light field provides both velocity damping and spatial …

The dynamics of an ultracold dilute gas of bosonic atoms in an optical lattice can be
described by a Bose-Hubbard model where the system parameters are controlled by laser …

Laser-cooled rubidium atoms have been trapped in a nondissipative optical lattice with a
large lattice constant. The lattice potential is generated by the ac Stark shift in an infrared …

Optical lattices have developed into a widely used and highly recognized tool to study many-
body quantum physics with special relevance for solid state type systems. One of the most …

We present the first experimental realization of coherent Bragg scattering off a one-
dimensional system—two strings of atoms strongly coupled to a single photonic mode …

We calculate the energy-level shifts of a tightly confined trapped alkali-metal atom in the
presence of a second trapped atom. A complete microscopic description of the interaction …

We study the dynamics of ultracold atoms in an optical lattice under constant bias. After
recapitulating the ideas underlying Bloch oscillations and Zener's formula for interband …

We experimentally demonstrate coherent light scattering from an atomic Mott insulator in a
two-dimensional lattice. The far-field diffraction pattern of small clouds of a few hundred …

We have observed Bragg scattering of photons from quantum degenerate Rb 87 atoms in a
three-dimensional optical lattice. Bragg scattered light directly probes the microscopic crystal …